by Roane Transportation Team Member | Jul 13, 2021 | Transportation
The hype around automated vehicles in the last five years makes many truckers nervous. But truckers should take note: early technology reports claimed that by 2020 the streets of major cities would be littered with driverless vehicles. Projections that automated...
by Roane Transportation Team Member | Jul 8, 2021 | Drivers, Life at Roane Transportation, Transportation
As a truck driver, you spend hours at a time sitting still in your cab while you drive your haul to its destination. The longer you drive, the more time you spend inactive. The nature of truck driving makes it difficult for truckers to find the time and space to stay...
by Roane Transportation Team Member | Mar 23, 2021 | Transportation
The truck drivers and dispatchers are the faces and voices of a transportation company. What many people don’t realize, however, is that they could not successfully do their jobs without the help of a lot of technology and digital equipment. Transportation companies...
by Roane Transportation Team Member | Feb 16, 2021 | Flatbed Trucking, Transportation, Trucking Safety
Flatbed truck drivers put as much if not more miles on their vehicles than drivers in any other industry. But more miles on the road means more chances for accidents, which means your vehicle must be as safe as possible when you head out on your next trip. Along with...
by Roane Transportation Team Member | Nov 10, 2020 | Flatbed Trucking, Heavy Haulage, Transportation
The fewer the links in the supply chain, the smoother it runs, right? Simpler means more streamlined in most situations, but as the last two years have taught us all, supply chains sometimes confound elegant logic. Straight-line supply chains, ones with only one...
by Roane Transportation Team Member | Apr 20, 2020 | Drivers, Transportation, Trucking Safety
Truck tire blowouts happen suddenly and without warning. A truck tire blowout is different from a simple flat tire. It involves the sudden bursting or rupturing of a truck tire, typically while a truck is traveling at a high speed along the highway. When a truck’s...
